For the most part, we know how to mitigate the chronic diseases that plague people in their older years–eat healthily from early on, and get ple...
What’s new in media and industry: Who’s who in longevity, and more
Here’s our handpicked selection of the best interviews, blog posts, popular articles, and breaking biotech news of the last two weeks: Want a systemat...
How your ancestors’ lifestyle determines your lifespan
Part I of III in a series on the evolution of aging. (Part II, Part III) Here’s an interesting experiment that I don’t recommend trying at home. Take ...
In the media: White papers, worms and “Why die?”
LEAF takes an incisive look at the popular “eternal snoozefest” view of life extension and knocks down that shaky extrapolation from elder...
In the media: Telomeres, translation, and treatment
“All of this time I had been thinking about telomere maintenance in terms of the minuscule cellular molecular structures that they are, and the ...
In the media: Mouse mugshots, metabolic mayhem and metformin
Is a picture worth a thousand biomarkers? MouseAGE, the AI that wants to eyeball the age of rodents, thinks so. Dr. Craig Thomspon talks cancer metabo...
Research roundup: Growth hormone receptor mutations in centenarians, and more
A study of centenarians finds a certain mutation of the growth hormone receptor gene is more common among men, but not women, compared to 70-year-old ...
Live slow, die old: Mounting evidence for caloric restriction in humans
Let’s say you wanted to hear a first-hand story of ordinary life 100 years ago. Where might you go to find a storyteller? Maybe you want to hear as ma...